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LD Snobs from Upper-Middle Class Neighborhoods

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Topic: LD’ers/LD snobs from Upper-Middle Class Neighborhoods who drive BMW w/ Hamann RIms/Lexus/etc. :

Now Hopefully im not considered to be one

Any thoughts? Do you dislike them? Do you think they are frequently diagnosed as LD because of pressure from parents or do they genuinely have difficulties? It is finally illegal to place an asterix next to one’s SAT/ACT score if taken with accomodations. Thank you.

id like to know if there are LD students on these boards who have come from good backgrounds and now attend (or did attend) good 4 year colleges and how that’s worked out for them. Maybe I can get to know these highly successful LD folks and maybe talk about our difficulties.

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 06/03/2004 - 5:53 AM

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I have a Learning Disability and I think that you are nuts to think that you want to be labeled with a learning Disabiltiy.

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 06/03/2004 - 5:38 PM

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[quote=”fan21lucy”]I have a Learning Disability and I think that you are nuts to think that you want to be labeled with a learning Disabiltiy.[/quote]

If we follow you thinking then we shouldn’t identify any disabled persons.

As far as snobbery goes I think anyone who drive a car that costs more than a house is a pig. I drive an old beat car but the door open wide enough to ding BMWs and gas guzzling SUVs.

DOn’t worry about something being legal. Be concerned about fairness and morality.

Strike a blow for justice. Punch a lawyer as hard as you can.

Submitted by Sue on Sat, 06/05/2004 - 11:14 PM

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Sounds llike the issue is driving an expensive car.

I guess if you have an LD label and you have money, gosh, you must not *really* be disabled; that fancy car means you’ve got everything under control and you’re just spoiled and use the label to get more, more, more.

There’s a neat book called “Exceeding Expectations” about highly successful people with pretty indisputable learning disabilities — though of course, if they drive BMW’s they’re snobs, right?… Or, maybe, some of them have transcended that kind of thinking and, yea, shocking, look for the good in other people and don’t look for some reason to put somebody down. I mean, BMW’s are really well engineered cars. And maybe it’s a 1984 model…

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 06/06/2004 - 6:05 PM

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I actually have read articles claiming that a disproportionate number of millioniares are learning disabled. I read one such article to my LD child and he loved it. He told his brother and sister he had a better chance of becoming rich than they!! Now we all know that the jails have a disproportionate number of people who are learning disabled as well….

Beth

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 06/08/2004 - 5:09 AM

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[quote=”rover”]and it’s fair and moral to call people pigs and ding their car doors because they choose to drive cars newer than yours?[/quote]

If a pig is a pig then call the pig a pig. Dinging BMWs is a great idea! :D The pigs that drive them and those gas hog SUVs deserve it. Pissing off people like me with their arrogance is the price they pay for driving a status symbol insted of an enviromentally responsible vehicles. It sends a message to the piggies.

If a person can drive an obscenely expensive car while there are people living in poverty they need a wake up call. It is also good economics.

With Bush’s tax cut to the filthy rich dinging or keying a BMW will take money out of the hand of some rich prick and put it in the hands of a guy working at a body shop.

That is my version of trickle down economics.

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